Mamata questions EVM credibility, says BJP can manipulate results

May 2, 2024

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today expressed concerns about potential electoral manipulation by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a rally in Farakka, Bengal, and questioned the “sudden jump in final voter turnout by nearly 5.75 per cent from what was declared earlier” She highlighted...

Centre raises security for BJP candidates in Bengal

May 1, 2024

With reports of more and more BJP candidates being accosted on the campaign trail by belligerent Trinamool Congress supporters, the Union Home Ministry moved to grant additional security to the party’s candidates. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, the Calcutta High Court judge who resigned from the judiciary and is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s...

BJP spreading lies about submission of utilisation certificates for central projects: Mamata

May 1, 2024

Minutes after Union Home Minister Amit Shah ended his speech in Memari, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee struck back from her election rally in Harischandrapur in Malda Uttar Lok Sabha constituency, and accused BJP leaders of only “badmouthing and threatening Bengal”. Banerjee accused Amit Shah of “peddling lies” on...

MAA, MATI, MANUSH REPLACED BY MULLAH, MADRASA & MAFIA: SHAH

May 1, 2024

Amid a searing heatwave in West Bengal, the BJP on Tuesday raised the political temperature in the state with its two big names – Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath – taking on Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress Government. Addressing a public meeting at...

Mamata accuses HC of colluding with BJP

April 26, 2024

On the backfoot after a High Court bench axed 26,000 jobs for a scam in which Trinamool leaders are in CBI and ED custody, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, the general secretary of the Trinamool Congress, today kept up their attack on the High...

Mamata moves SC against HC order

April 25, 2024

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today kept up her attack on the Calcutta High Court, blaming it for “taking away jobs of 26,000 young men and women” on the orders of the Bharatiya Janata Party even as her Government moved the Supreme Court over the issue which has triggered...

Won’t allow polling in LS seats that saw communal violence: Calcutta HC

April 24, 2024

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday warned that it would not allow voting in Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal which witnessed communal violence during the Ram Navami celebrations. The observation by a Bench headed by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam came during a hearing on the violence that took place...

Trinamool dons saffron to blunt BJP’s Ram Navami edge

April 18, 2024

In an effort to blunt efforts of the Bharatiya Janata Party to gain mileage from Ram Navami, the Trinamool Congress today went all out to proclaim its faith in Lord Ram, even as the BJP circulated videos of a Ram Navami procession being pelted with stones in the Muslim-dominated district...

Poll body asks Bengal Guv to stay out of polling areas

April 18, 2024

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has advised West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose to not tour Cooch Behar on April 18 and 19 since the “silence period” for the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls commences on Wednesday evening. Sources said that in its communication on Wednesday to...

No CAA, NRC, UCC in West Bengal, Mamata tells Eid gathering

April 12, 2024

A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misleading the people of the State about the Citizen Amendment Act, Banerjee used the opportunity of an Eid gathering to reiterate her opposition to the CAA, NRC and the Uniform Civil Code in the...